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LATEST ARTICLES ( 40 )

• Durán Durán

  Guest post by Derrick Del PilarI’ve been in this ballroom before. After visiting just two or three, you begin to realize that all hotels in the U.S. have the... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Champagne Tango

  I am a little anxious as I climb the familiar stairs encased in deep scarlet walls, as I hand over my pesos to the brunette behind the counter, as I wait in lin... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Sisterhood of the Black Cobra

  For Marcelo “El Chino” Gutierrez and my Cobra SistersThis is my favourite part. After all the exercises. After climbing one-legged onto stacks of books,... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Bitch

  A fictionIt felt like entering a cinema. I slipped inside and handed my forty pesos to a young man whose body was obscured by a box office-like booth. Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• This Bohemian Life

  “We’ve been walking for ever. When will we get there?” Mr Desert Enrosques complains, incongruously dapper in the pale beige and cream pinstriped trousers... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Disappearing Act

  

  A fictionShe shifted weight onto her left leg, letting her trochanter jut out to one side, holding the bulb of the wine glass cupped in a hammock of fingers. Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Listening to the Leader

  With thanks to Tilly Kimm, whose perceptive comment suggested this blog entry.I am surprised by our stamina. The air in this upstairs room is heavy with... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Techniques for Women

  

  I am walking briskly through San Telmo, stumbling occasionally as my sandals catch on the edges of uneven pavement stones, past jacarandá trees with a few last... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sweet Mistress Music

  

  Tonight, my body feels as though it were not my own. My right arm is stiffening unnaturally, as though some slow-acting basilisk were turning it to stone, and... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Man Who Danced Alone

  

  A fiction, based on a real-life tanguero As the cortina sounds, he hovers near the DJ table, shifting from foot to foot, and then takes a couple of tentative... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2012 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lucky in Tango, Unlucky in Love

  

  A fiction If only it were as simple as this in real life. Her beautiful hazel eyes, darkly outlined and spiky with mascara, are looking straight at me,... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2012 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Taking the Rough with the Smooth

  

  The sky is an unremittingly pale grey. Rain has been falling — falling for ever, it seems — in a fine spray which makes no sound and barely dampens my hair. Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2012 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Milonguero Man Mountain

  

  It’s the kind of place that makes me want to sport blood-red fingernails, don a velvet skirt trimmed with sequins and sip bourbon cocktails through a narrow,... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2012 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Fine Balance

  

  She has a shawl wrapped around her shoulders and is leaning back comfortably with one elbow propped on the table, watching the dancers with the look of someone... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2012 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Discovery

  

  My toes are throbbing quietly as though I had a beating heart in each foot. I am perching on the stage in this upstairs theatre, willing my tender tootsies to... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2012 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Second Spring

  

  It’s a place of faded grandeur, of the kind in which this city specialises. The incongruous nasal sound of bagpipes greets us in the lobby and mingles with the... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2012 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Late Bloomers

  

  “This is surely the most unpropitious entrance ever”, The Dark Poetess remarks. “We’ve got even Buenos Aires beat on that one. Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2012 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• All by Myself

  

  I am just a teeny bit embarrassed at what I am about to do, at the display of public onanism I am about to give. My students take their seats on the... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2012 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Mr Wiggle Fingers

  

  Outside, the lake is a smooth lacquered round tray, ebony dark and sheeny with the twin spheres of duplicated blue moons above and below. Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2012 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Leanings

  

  The room is a pool of warm, golden sunshine. The strange Tardis lampshades hang overhead: dull, flimsy navy blue crêpe paper pasted onto wooden... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2012 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION